Now, all the info about tiger on the Net

All information about tigers, their habitat, including their exact number, will now be just a mouse click away for wildlife lovers, with a comprehensive management and conservation exercise using scientific and statistical method getting under way soon.

All information about tigers, their habitat, including their exact number, will now be just a mouse click away for wildlife lovers, with a comprehensive management and conservation exercise using scientific and statistical method getting under way soon.

“The exercise called ‘tiger monitoring’ will help determine the exact number of tigers in the jungles of the country as well as complete information about co-predators such as leopards and other flagship species, prey base, presence, density and habitat,” said M Hasan, Chief Wildlife Warden of Uttar Pradesh.

The exercise undertaken jointly by the Project Tiger Directorate and Wildlife Institute of India will commence in the state in February for which a number of training workshops have been held at various wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. Foreign experts, including representatives from the United States, have also been involved in the exercise, Hasan added.

By using new techniques, forest experts and scientists would undertake prolonged and continued tiger monitoring in all the forests of the country for a week and compile the detailed data on digitised maps and then forward it to the Project Tiger directorate, said Ramesh Kumar Pandey, District Forest Officer of Katarniyaghat sanctuary.

This information would then be put on the internet, he added. This process would also help overcome chances of overlapping as tigers often move about from one jungle to another, increasing the chances of it being counted more than once.

According to the tiger census this year, there are about 3,200 to 3,500 tigers in the country, out of which 275 to 300 are in the forests of Uttar Pradesh.

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